Did those Pogues fans forking out hard-earned cash to go and see the original Pogues line up, with MacGowan out front once more, know this is how the tour's profits would be spent?

Did they know that they would be complicit in MacGowan betraying everything he once stood for?

That he would bugger off to fucking Spain to fill the bank account of some overpaid tooth quack to fix him up with some new-fangled fangs?

Well check it out. Here is Shane as we knew and loved him.

And here he is after his cosmetic surgery.

You see how he has caved in to the demands to submit to the dominant body image? See how smooth and conventionally handsome he now looks?

Oh the shame of it all.

I firmly belief that this is the first sign of the coming Armageddon.

And I will say this: if it turns out that Comrade MacGowan has started attending AA meetings, then the final battle between good and evil will have begun.

If this is the case, I trust all readers of this blog will find themselves in the front line — broken whiskey bottle in hand.

'I'll chop you down like an old dead tree...' A good example of Shane MacGowan's teeth in the pre-Armageddon days, before we were over-taken by the all-encompassing battle between the forces of Good and Evil.

I LOVE Shane. I have a Pogue Mahone tattoo. If he never got his teeth fixed?... No big deal. But it really does get in the way of him singing. Plus its not even just a "looks" thing. Without teeth yer face starts to cave in on its self. I get yer point which i think is mostly in jest but why would we not want one of the few great poet/songwriters left to fix himself up so we can actualy enjoy his voice.

And trying to decipher MacGowan's lyrics is half the enjoyment of listening to him.

And then, Anonymous, there is your allegation that my post was "mostly in jest".

Allow me to assure you nothing Carlo Sands says or does is, in the slightest, ever in jest. I have lived too long and then found out I was dead months after the terrible event via a Facebook quiz “When will you die?” for that.

When you live through events like that, you find you have little time for "jests".

I appreciate your suggestion, but it could only maskt he problem. The damage is donw. He can hide his shiny, intact, complete set of teeth all he likes, but he can't hide his *soul*. It just is not the same.

Still, it must only be a matter of time now till he falls over again and knocks a couple out and chips a good couple more.

In his current look, at least he looks different (in a good way) and presentable. It made me reminisce about my uncle when he got his teeth knocked off due to him falling off the stairs. A few days later, I accompanied him to the dentists in Edgewater that I frequent and treated him for a dental implant operation. A few sessions later, it's like he hasn't been in an accident at all!

You guys are forgetting that He needs to EAT and CHEW his food..no teeth no chewing!I think his biggest talent is his personality and his awesome lyrics...who cares how he looks like, teeth or no teeth, gum or yellow fake teeth, the guy is still a great performer.

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